Honestly, so many things…and that makes me wonder what I’m doing now that will make me cringe in the future, ha ha ha!
A couple have been relatively recent, like not washing my hair every day. This was during the phase when my hair was long and caramel brown with blonde streaks, and so to help retain the color and keep it from getting too dry, I would try to see how long I could make it through the week without washing my hair. Some weeks I’d go four or five days without washing it.
On the one hand, this saved me SO MUCH TIME in the morning because I could just do my hair on day one, and then not really have to do it until after I washed it again, so my hair styling time was like one minute in the mornings, which was FANTASTIC.
Also, not having to spend the time in the shower washing and conditioning was great too, but ya know…eventually I just got tired of dealing with an itchy scalp and greasy-feeling roots, and I slowly got back into the habit of washing it every day. This really kicked in when I started working out consistently. Now the thought of having even one-day roots grosses me out.
I also went through a spell where I was wearing full-coverage base every day — primer, foundation, color corrector, concealer, powder, the whole nine yards. It looked great in pics! — but dang, girl…it was WORK. I think at that point I was blocking out at least 45 minutes just to put on makeup.
Now I rarely wear full-coverage base because I can’t tolerating feeling like I’m wearing a ton of stuff on my skin, and the thought of wearing full-coverage all day, every day makes me go YEEOUCH!
And, of course, there were the many questionable beauty decisions I made in the ’90s. The one that haunts me the most is plucking all my eyebrows away!
How about you? What’s something beauty related you used to do that makes you cringe now?
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
I used to do the opposite with my hair — wash it every single day — it got to the point where my scalp was producing so much oil from so much stripping from my shampoo. Now I do not wash my hair every day. Every hair stylist I’ve had have all told me 2x a week max- but that doesn’t mean no rinsing out. It took a while for my scalp to settle down and stop being so greasy. Now when I do wash, I add a hair mask.
I do wear a full foundation but I’m picky on formula – I feel like they have just improved so much it doesn’t feel super heavy — but that’s for 1% of the time – 99% is just devoted to tinted sunscreen (ISDN).
Nothing comes to mind, as I didn’t use much makeup for a long time due to my skin tone being too light to find a foundation match. For years I just used powder, blush, and lipstick. Your comment about eyebrow plucking reminds me about when I was 10 years old, and my 5th-grade teacher made a comment about me, that “you’ll really need to pluck your eyebrows when you get older.” (Teachers in those days didn’t care about whether anything they said to a kid might be hurtful; they probably still don’t). I did not follow that advice. My eyebrows were never really Audrey Hepburn thick, they just stood out because the brow hairs were black and my skin was (and is) very, very light. I’m glad I didn’t follow the thin-eyebrow trend, because I would have permanently lost a lot of eyebrow hairs.
Using Seabreeze errday for teenage acne. So harsh on the skin! I also tried to make myself as pale as possible with the powder that had the picture of the beautiful Chinese woman on the box. Yeah, not happening to a brown-skinned goth in Mesa, AZ. Somehow my skin was darker when I was younger. I’m pretty pale now for living in Hawaii and I embrace my medium-with-goldenish-neutralish-undertone. 😄No crazy astringents and no crazy white powder.
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My hair was very long until I was about 16 years old, then I cut it to shoulder length.
So I washed it about 2 times a week. But now with the kids it is only once a week. And my scalp is thankful. It adjusted very well. I rinse with water only because of my allergies in the evening during spring.
And I wear my hair shorter, so it dries faster.
I stopped using styling tools to straighten my hair or make waves – now I just emphasize the natural curly structure and that’s it.
I stopped buying so much lip gloss. Now I know better what I can expect their color to turn out on my lips and use more lipsticks.